Make It Good, by Jon Ingold3 votes"Hours and hours (and hours and hours) of replaying" [+]"Hours and hours (and hours and hours) of replaying: Like Varicella, Make It Good requires not only that you solve puzzles but that you coordinate a complex series of events so that everything goes right -- and you're surrounded by vigilant NPCs who will see through you if you're not careful." ( - Full review) --Emily Short... (No comment)[+](No comment)--E.K.... (No comment)[+](No comment)--bluevelvetwings...

Deadline, by Marc Blank2 votes"Requires many playthroughs so you can learn to be in the right places at the right times" [+]"Requires many playthroughs so you can learn to be in the right places at the right times" ( - Full review) --Emily Short... (No comment)[+](No comment)--Jeremy Freese...

Curses!, by Graham Nelson2 votes"Easy to get into an unwinnable state, and often no acknowledgment when you're doing the right thing" [+]"Easy to get into an unwinnable state, and often no acknowledgment when you're doing the right thing: First of all, you'll quickly learn that this game seems to have been written almost exclusively for literary giants - you'll likely have to consult a dictionary multiple times for every new room you enter. Second, there are two puzzles which I won't disclose here for spoiler reasons, where you have to have done something much earlier in the game (unwinnable states), but if you had done it, the response was "nothing seems to happen" (no acknowledgement)." --mjhayes... (No comment)[+](No comment) () --shornet...

Cottage, by Viggo Eriksson, Kimmo Eriksson, Olle E Johansson1 vote"Extremely unfair" [+]"Extremely unfair: The map is a nightmare, and a large part of it changes randomly. Some of the puzzles are extremely far-fetched, and for one particularly nasty puzzle, even if you guess the right thing to do, the game draws a random number to decide if you succeed or get no indication at all that you're on the right track. After solving the game by reading the source code, I feel pretty sure that no one has ever completed the game without clues." --Fredrik Ramsberg...

Starcross, by Dave Lebling1 vote"Another game I can't get anywhere on (and I first tried in '85). Its listed as "Expert" level for a reason, I suppose." [+]"Another game I can't get anywhere on (and I first tried in '85). Its listed as "Expert" level for a reason, I suppose." --Xervosh...